Hold Us Close Quotes

#1. In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Henri Nouwen

#2. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

Hanif Kureishi

#3. Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.

Robert Graves

#4. He knew then he was in danger. Very real danger. No woman had ever given him a gift or spoken to him as she did. Or tied him in these breathless knots. Or left him so aroused just by standing close and letting him hold her hand.

Jayne Fresina

#5. Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you?

Common

#6. When you find love, you must catch it close and hold it tight. Do not let it go so easily.

Shelly Thacker

#7. He didn't fold his arms around her, and he didn't hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.

Meredith Marple

#8. I just want to hold you close." I gave Timby a squeeze. He relaxed in my embrace. "I'm wild about you, you know that, right?"
"I know." He smiled up at me.
"You don't have to be wild about me too. Just try to like me a little more than you do now.

Maria Semple

#9. She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

Ricky Nelson

#10. Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days.

Belinda Taylor On "Loss"

#11. Come on, Arianna," I plead as I hold her close, "come back to me.

Brittany DeLys

#12. Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

William Stafford

#13. I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.

Stephen Beal

#14. I hold his name close as my own blood and I will never let it out. I only spoke it that once so he would know he was alive.

Louise Erdrich

#15. Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Lara Adrian

#16. They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.

Robert Low

#17. Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

Marguerite Duras

#18. Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

Grace Noll Crowell

#19. To close read is to linger, to dally, to take pleasure in tarrying, and to hold out that these activities can allow us to look both hard and askance at the norm.

Elizabeth Freeman

#20. Love isn't measured in chances, Landen. When you love someone, there isn't a limit. As long as you keep trying, I will keep loving you. I don't know if I could stop.

Caisey Quinn

#21. Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.

Barack Obama

#22. We started filming [with Brandy Burre ]and didn't really know, at first, what we were doing. Eventually, the thing just grabbed a hold of both of us and became what it is. But, yeah, we were very close before and we're even closer now.

Robert Greene

#23. But forgiveness ... I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.

Libba Bray

#24. If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

Karen Armstrong

#25. Our memories, those precious moments that shape our lives and makes us who we are. Our friends, our families, and all the special things we hold close to our hearts. Those are the things that can never be replaced

Virginia McKevitt

#26. Life doesn't add up. People don't add up. And in the rawest moments of honest hurting, God doesn't add up. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.

Lysa TerKeurst

#27. It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.

Lynn Tilton

#28. the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world.

Sanober Khan

#29. You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

Gail Mazur

#30. When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

Reid Hoffman

#31. It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

Laura Moriarty

#32. I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts

Abbi Glines

#33. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.

Jocelyn Davies

#34. I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems like a natural way to hold the baby close to you. I also love the burp cloths, bibs, and swaddle blankets from Aden and Anais. Their stuff is organic and pure.

Vanessa Lachey

#35. The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.

Henry Suso

#36. hold her close, tight, in just the way I know she wants. My thumb moves down to press against her throat, not with intent, but just enough to let her know I have her.

Christina Lauren

#37. Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.

Lisa Gardner

#38. Draco's like... snow," said Hermione quietly, her gaze absent and distracted. "It's cold and cruel to begin with, but it's somehow beautiful, and you miss it when it's not there. And if you hold it in your hands close enough and long enough, it changes. It melts.

Bex-chan

#39. What is Religion according to you?

"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.

Vishwas Mudagal

#40. You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.

Jeaniene Frost

#41. Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

#42. Life's a roller coaster. Best damn ride in the park. You don't close your eyes, hold on and wait for it to be over, babe. You keep your eyes open, lift your hands straight up in the air and enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts.

Kristen Ashley

#43. When you wake up everyday
Please don't throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
'Cause we are all a part of
the ordinary miracle

Sarah McLachlan

#44. Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

Donita K. Paul

#45. His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.

Juliet Marillier

#46. I will clear for you a way and a path. Stay close to me. I hold the lantern, dispelling your anxiety. I am your chosen path.

Julia Cameron

#47. It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

Nina LaCour

#48. God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Gloria Gaither

#49. Surely, no one hoped for so many things. Hold the flowers close to your heart; they may someday bloom.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#50. Jon had seen the lie immediately for what it was: diplomacy. He had a feeling that, given the chance, Tom would hold him close every night. Instead, the first mate chose to distance himself so as not to interfere with the captain's affection for Jon. A sacrifice.

Bey Deckard

#51. That if you were mine I would hold you close every day. I would tell you that you are my breath, my life. That you are the thing that gives my life meaning. That makes me whole.

J. Kenner

#52. Hold the day close. You want see it again.

Derrick L. Randall